Absolutely GL...
That's why I believe in chronological order of Quran ... God is the one who collect it and put in recitation order and He is the one who protects it...
I would like to add a comment to this... Has anywhere in Quran when God used "We Do" something and got the assistance of human ?... Can you check that pls GL... Or anyone else... Is there any instance in Quran?
Peace Jkhan,
Whatever humans are capable of doing is because GOD has given us the ability. Its easy for God to use human for his purpose. He sent prophets/messengers to do exactly that by inspiration who served specific functions .
42:51 It is not for any human being that God would speak to him, except through inspiration, or from behind a barrier, or by sending a messenger to inspire whom He wills by His leave. He is the Most High, Most Wise.
God can inspire any human being not only prophets or messengers. God inspired mother of Moses .
28:7 We inspired to Moses' mother: "Suckle him, and when you become fearful for him, then cast him off in the sea, and do not fear nor grieve. We will return him to you and We will make him of the messengers."
So its easy for God to use humans for preservation of the reminder (15:9) . And it has been a collective approach by humans to propagate Quran for 1400 years and I think still going on in terms of understanding the Quran via debates and discussion.
Even this argument whether there is a numerical structure of the Quran or not. Some people has mentioned waste of time at the same time wasting their time to disprove it. But with all the arguments for and against still we are enriching our knowledge somehow. Even in this thread I can see people digging into old manuscript to debate about what should be the correct spelling of some words. So I think its not a total waste of time. But yes some people gets carried away and overdo it which is normal for anything. I am sure some people after revelation of the Quran got carried away and started collecting anything Muhammad said and after few hundred years heaps of hadith/sunnah collection emerged.
And in my opinion not everything has to be multiple of 19 if there is a numerical structure. Surah 68 is an example where where I think God intentionally did not make the count of NuN to be 133 . Instead its 132 . He could have used called Jonah by name in 68:48 and the count could become multiple of 19.
Also I find these arguments compelling the way some of the counts were done using inconsistent methodology.
https://www.quranaloneislam.net/rashad-khalifa-exposedMay be one day there will emerge a consistent numerical structure if God wills and we can observe the Quran as it is in the preserved tablet.
So yes everything that goes towards preserving the reminder is divinely guided by God and humans in different era probably got inspired to do so.
--When Arabic language emerged as a written/scripted language
--When Quran was revealed in arabic
--Writing down the Quran
--Arranging the chapters of the Quran
--Memorizing the Quran
--Changes in the spelling of different words (adding alif, deleting alifs etc)
--Discovery of numerical structures or the argument/debate over whether there is one